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科罗纳多吹嘘他的偶像在开拓者们西行之前就沿着圣达菲路向东走，但这可能只是因为历史书和电影在宣传开拓者们西行是如何伟大。实际上，最有资格骄傲的是印第安人，因为不管怎么说，这是一条从东到西的印第安人做贸易的路：普韦布洛(西南)印第安陶器被用来交换基维兰(堪萨斯州)的水牛服装。这是我在观察当地食物和手工艺时得知的。我得说，印第安人很自然地会把他引向东部，然后除掉他。这条路的西玛伦切断线将带着他穿过德克萨斯州和俄克拉荷马州的狭长地带，前往堪萨斯州。
Coronado touts his hero for heading east on the Santa Fe Trail before the pioneers went west on it, but probably only because the history books and movies have done such a good job touting how the pioneers went west on it. Fact is: the ones who are the rightful touters are the Indians since, as far as people are concerned anyway, it started out as an east-west Indian trade route: Pueblo (Southwest) Indian pottery was traded for Quiviran (Kansas) buffalo garments. That’s what I learned when looking into native foods and crafts. I’d say it was only natural the Indians would point him east on it to get rid of him. The Cimarron Cutoff route of the Trail would have taken him through the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma going towards Kansas.

在科罗纳多之后的几个世纪里，西班牙人和法国人一直使用它，美国人都熟知，它们乘马车，后来坐铁路火车(1880年)向西行驶，再后来他们驾驶那些珍贵的汽车。科罗纳多的长途跋涉造就了汽车神话：66号公路。66号公路为现在的州际公路提供了同样长的道路。
For centuries after Coronado, the Spanish and French used it until it became popular with U.S. citizens driving west in wagon trains, then railroad trains (1880), then their precious cars. Coronado’s trek paved the way for bits of what came to be automotive folklore: Route 66. And Route 66 provided the path for an equally long stretch of the present Interstate.

连接墨西哥城和圣达菲的皇家大道也是如此。虽然科罗纳多沿着这条路往北走，但这也是一条古老的印第安人的贸易路线，其中的一部分至今还在。没想到吧？地球还是原来的样子。科罗纳多告诉我们，探险队从西班牙港口孔波斯特拉出发，墨西哥城西北500英里处，然后向北穿过卡纳内阿，沿着亚利桑那州东南的图姆斯通的圣佩德罗河，再沿着老印第安人小道，穿过现在亚利桑那州的圣约翰，然后往东到达圣达菲，等等。
Same’s true of the Camino Real (Royal Road) that linked Mexico City to Santa Fe. Though Coronado followed it north, it also was an old Indian trade route, parts of which still exist. Big surprise, huh? It’s the same earth as before. Coronado tells us the expedition took off from the Spanish port called Compostela, 500 miles northwest of Mexico City, and then headed north through Cananea along the San Pedro River of southeast Arizona by Tombstone, along old Indian trails past what is now Saint Johns, Arizona, and then east to Santa Fe etc.